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A city councillor at-large and the former chief executive of a Dorchester hospital entered the Boston mayoral sweepstakes over the last week, bringing to eight the number of candidates who have said they hope to succeed Thomas Menino. Savin Hill’s Bill... Read more
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley is in: His campaign put out a statement below on Wednesday afternoon. Boston is a great city, and with the right leadership and vision, its best days are still ahead. So today I am officially declaring that I am a... Read more
Attendees of a Wednesday night rally for City Councillor At-Large John Connolly’s mayoral bid were served a blistering critique of the Menino administration with a side of Bad Rabbits. About 400 people, some of them spilling out into the Omni Parker House... Read more
In a 6 to 1 vote last Wednesday night, the Boston School Committee signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the school system’s assignment process. The 57,000 students now attending the city’s schools, along with their siblings, are grandfathered under the... Read more
Charles Clemons, co-founder of TOUCH 106.1 FM, is launching a mayoral bid. At his 50th birthday party, held Sunday night at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, Clemons announced he was running for mayor in 2013. “I just feel like as a parent, and a grandfather,... Read more
If the mayor's race was based on the caliber of jokes last Sunday at the St. Patrick's Day breakfast, City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon might have scored an upset. That's according to an informal survey of participants of the annual Irish-themed roast of... Read more
As about 200 supporters chowed down on Singapore rice noodles and boneless spare ribs, City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon formally kicked off his mayoral run Tuesday night. In his speech to supporters, Yoon made little mention of the 15-year incumbent,... Read more
Calls for an elected school committee, and notes that Boston's three favorite pastimes are sports, politics and revenge.
Mayor Tom Menino made some of the city's performance statistics public last week with a new website, but his election-year challengers are already giving the report card a failing grade. "It reminds me of the old Soviet Union five-year plans," said... Read more
He's fought City Hall in the court of law. Now he plans to fight it in the court of public opinion. Before a small gathering of 30 supporters, businessman Kevin McCrea last week officially kicked off his campaign to unseat Mayor Thomas Menino. McCrea is... Read more

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